For nearly 70 years, the Gay family has trawled for and sold local shrimp at its St. Helena Island market.
But these days, they often make more money selling t-shirts and coffee mugs than seafood.
Charles Gay, co-owner of Gay Fish Co., is pictured in this photo taken in August holding a shrimp affected with a parasite infection called black gill. Gay thinks shrimping in Beaufort County will eventually come to an end because of shrimp farms in foreign markets.
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